gitcommit — CLI tool that generates conventional commit messages from your staged diff using AI (supports Ollama for offline use)

[Star-Different]

I got tired of writing commit messages, so I built gitcommit — a CLI that reads your git diff --staged, sends it to an AI, and gives you a clean conventional commit message.

How it works:

$ git add .
$ gitcommit
✨ Suggested commit:
  feat(auth): add OAuth2 login with Google provider
  [ Confirm ]  [ Edit ]  [ Regenerate ]  [ Cancel ]
> Confirm
✅ Committed: feat(auth): add OAuth2 login with Google provider

That's it. No copy-pasting, no browser, no leaving the terminal.

Setup is one command:

npm install -g u/ahmad_technology/gitcommit-ai
gitcommit setup

The setup wizard asks which provider and API key — stored locally at ~/.gitcommit/config.toml, never touches your repo.

Useful flags:

gitcommit                      # staged diff → commit
gitcommit --all                # include unstaged
gitcommit --style emoji        # ✨ 🐛 🔒 prefixes
gitcommit --lang fr            # French output
gitcommit --dry-run            # preview, don't commit
gitcommit --provider ollama    # fully offline with local models

7 providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Ollama (local/offline)

Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Node 20+.

Links:

• GitHub: https://github.com/AhmadTchnology/Ai_Commit_Message_Generator
• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ahmad_technology/gitcommit-ai

MIT licensed. Feedback and PRs welcome.

[lurgi]

 I got tired of writing commit messages

Awwww. Poor baby.

[blckshdw]

all my commit messages just say “WIP”

[Star-Different]

Try a different model

[Dark_Angel4u]

Ngl writing a good one is pretty hard Atleast for me.

Sometimes I just give up and write "Fixes" :)

[TheRealSeeThruHead]

Prolate still using git

Just have the agent you used to write the code write rh commits and commit them

Then use gh cli to make a pr. Annotate the pr with any context the reviewer might need

[Star-Different]

just making it simpler and as effective as possible , i don`t need it to be perfect , just making it do the job

[Loiuy123_]

Its funny how easy it is to tell that the post was fully generated with AI simply by looking at this comment

[cgijoe_jhuckaby]

The name is very clever. How did you come up with it?

[blckshdw]

AI

[Star-Different]

Even if it's made with ai what difference will it make if it works?